Silent Quotes

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.

There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought.

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Of every noble work the silent part is best, of all expression that which can not be expressed.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.